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Tim Rasinski’s Fluency First! Lesson Plan

Date: April 20, 2011

Teacher Name: Wendy Yule

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Subject: reading

Topic: traditional verses and nursery rhymes

Lesson Summary: Utilizing my interactive white board, material from Timothy Rasinski’s Fluency First! Reading program will be used to develop early reading skills and increase fluency by focusing on teacher modeled reading and providing support for students’ independent reading through repeated practice. An emphasis will be placed on beginning phonics and word study as we work with the various verses. Cooperative shared writing activities will also provide students an opportunity to contribute to a revision of the poem or verse, while focusing on sequence, meaning, and attending to words and punctuation.

Goals (Learning Objectives): *How will learning objectives be communicated to students? Through this teacher directed activity, I will model reading the verse as well as tell the students what we will be working on, such as words beginning with “T.” Students will be given opportunity to practice reading and sequencing the poem with the interactive board. They will also be given a printed copy of the poem to add to a poetry notebook. *How will students be allowed to personalize learning objectives? Students’ needs, such as requiring more time or practice, can be addressed following teacher observation and informal assessment. Additional practice will be available to those that need it, and reinforced with reading their own copies of the poems. To increase the language experience, differentiation would be possible when students work cooperatively to personalize their own version of the verse, sharing the re-written version on the Promethean board.

NETS: Students will construct knowledge using technology. Students will communicate and work collaboratively to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.


 * Strategies that Create the Learning Environment **

Setting Objectives Providing Feedback Reinforcing Effort Providing Recognition


 * Procedure/Brief Description: ** Following teacher modeling, students, working individually or in small groups, will have the opportunity to use the interactive board to practice fluency and respond to phonemic activities at the board. Concepts of print will be emphasized as well as phonemic activities which include providing missing letters in the verse and sequencing the lines of the verse. I will be there to provide support and reinforcement as needed.


 * Strategies that Help Students Acquire & Integrate New Knowledge **

Cues, Questions, & Advance Organizers Summarizing Note taking Nonlinguistic Representation Cooperative Learning


 * Procedure/Brief Description: ** Students will work to order the sentences of the rhyme, attending to the sentence structure and sequence. As the small groups re-write their own version of the poem or verse, the students will need to work cooperatively to plan and revise the text while working off the original poem. Their product should be an innovation of the original text, with illustrations that support the revised writing, and can be displayed and shared on the white board


 * Strategies that Help Students Practice, Review, & Apply Existing Knowledge **

Homework & Practice Identifying Similarities & Differences (Compare/contrast, classify, create, metaphors or analogies) Generating & Testing Hypotheses (problem-solving, invention experimental inquiry, historical investigation, decision-making, systems analysis)


 * Procedure/Brief Description: ** Students will have an opportunity to practice reading fluency at the board and in their poetry notebook. They can share their revised verses and poems that correspond with the original pieces, comparing and contrasting the pieces.


 * Resources: **

Title: Tim Risinski’s __Fluency First!__ Manual, although any versions of rhymes and verses would be appropriate


 * Assessment Methods: **

True/False Multiple choice Essay Performance Constructed communication Personal communication Product/project graded by rubric Other:


 * Technology Used: **

None Brainstorming/idea mapping software Calculators Clickers Collaborative application (Ex. Wiki) Communication tool (Ex. Skype) Data collection tools Diagnostic/prescriptive system (Ex. Accelerated Reader) Display tools (Ex. Elmo) Interactive whiteboard Educational games Multimedia (creating) Multimedia (watching) Spreadsheet Virtual manipulative Web-based research Word processing Other: